Collaborative Curriculum Projects

Beginning with the 2002-2003 academic year, the MSU PT3 program has offered Collaborative Curriculum Grants of up to $15,000 to teams of Morehead faculty and regional teachers to explore interdisciplinary approaches to technology integration and teacher preparation.

2002-2003 Projects

Medieval Culture

  • Project Leader: Robert Royar (English, Foreign Languages & Philosophy)
  • To develop an interdisciplinary humanities course in Medieval Culture and explore team teaching approaches.
  • Collaboration between MSU Departments of English, Foreign Languages & Philosophy, Communications & Theatre, History, and Music and the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English / Language Arts (KCTE/LA)

P-12 Arts Resources

  • Project Leader: Denise Watkins (Communications & Theatre)
  • To assist P-12 teachers in teaching cross-curricular arts and humanities and enhance arts education and cultural appreciation through technology.
  • Collaboration between MSU Departments of Communications & Theatre and Art and E.P. Ward Elementary School.

Math & Science Education

  • Project Leader: David Magrane (Biological & Environmental Sciences)
  • To integrate methods courses in Biology, Mathematics and Physical Science (BIOL / MATH / PHYS 402 & 403) and improve technology training for preservice teachers in mathematics and the sciences.
  • Collaboration between MSU Departments of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, and Physical Sciences, Rowan County Middle and High School, and the Eastern Kentucky University Collaborative Clusters.

2003-2004 Projects

Field Experience Partnerships

  • Project Leader: Wayne Willis (Elementary, Reading & Special Education)
  • To encourage close partnerships between MSU teacher education faculty and the clinical faculty in public schools with whom their students work by providing faculty with technology that will help them in their work in the field - Palm PDAs with keyboards.
  • Collaboration between MSU College of Education, teacher educators in secondary disciplines, and regional public school teachers.

Technology Integration and Use in the Fifth Grade Social Studies Classroom

  • Project Leader: Yvonne Baldwin (Geography, Government & History)
  • To provide a twenty hour hands-on workshop to train elementary teachers to integrate technology into a model social studies classroom and to provide year long follow up instruction and mentoring.
  • Collaboration between MSU departments of Geography, Government & History, Elementary, Reading & Special Education, and Leadership & Secondary Education, the Institute for Regional Analysis and Public Policy, and Tom Snyder Productions.

Exploring Issues of Identity through Time-Based Media

  • Project Leader: Jennifer Reis (Art)
  • To expose high school students, P-12 educators, and pre-service education candidates to technology in the arts, specifically time-based media; to develop an awareness and appreciation of diversity and issues of identity in Rowan County Senior High School students; to assist pre-service education candidates in their exploration of meaningful and relevant field experiences that examine issues of tolerance and diversity; to promote and publicize the project products to enrich learning for pre-service education candidates (specifically secondary education) and MSU students as a whole.
  • Collaboration between MSU departments of Art and Communications & Theatre and Rowan County Senior High School.

English Education Center

  • Project Leader: Kathryn Mincey (English, Foreign Languages & Philosophy)
  • To establish an English Education Center to provide resources and professional development for pre-service and in-service English teachers, P-16.
  • Collaboration between MSU departments of English, Foreign Languages & Philosophy, Communications & Theatre, and Leadership & Secondary Education and teachers from Mason, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, and Rowan counties.

Technology Integration in Secondary Methods and Field Experience

  • Project Leader: Lesia Lennex (Leadership & Secondary Education)
  • To bring more fruitful field experience to teacher education candidates by combining field experiences for secondary methods classes and EDSE 312 (Educational Methods and Technology). Candidates will receive extended field experience in the same setting with assignments supporting both the discipline and integration of technology into the curriculum.
  • Collaboration between MSU Departments of Leadership & Secondary Education and Art and Rowan County Senior High School.